I slowed the car and Debbie leaned out the window to ask a couple of hikers if this was the correct parking spot for the Ammonoosuc trailhead. They confirmed that we were in the right place, so we parked and gathered ourselves together for the adventure ahead. After a few stretches and an inaugural trip […]

“…I got all excited thinking it could happen this Saturday.” My coworker Wendy leaned back in her chair, still smiling from the laughter that had just filled the break room over the confusion caused by thinking one trail name and saying another. “The weather’s supposed to be good.” I chimed in. “You wanna do it […]

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I see you. You are more than a small face in a grainy photograph. You are more than the blue or gold star they hung in the window. You are more than the helmet peeking above the bushes. You are more than nimble fingers and agile eyes aiming and firing. You are more than bloody […]

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Easter is one of those holidays that never seems adequately celebrated. At the beginning of spring, winter is dying away and the pace of life is quickening in anticipation of warmer weather (which in New England, you have to anticipate by faith some years) and more time outdoors. Easter slips by in a flurry of […]

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The fingers of my left hand strained to reach their places on the fretboard, and as my right hand swept the pick across the strings, I overshot and struck the next set too. “Ping, thunk. Ping, thunk.” It sounded like someone had stepped on a cat’s tail and then grabbed it by the windpipe. […]

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The wayward writer has returned yet again. It’s been a coon’s age since I last posted (although I can’t say I actually know how long a coon’s age is – I assume it could be quite a while), so as a way of saying hello again, I’ll share my review of the past year as […]